Waterbury evening Democrat., 1887-12-07
HERE AND THERE.

Garfield avenue, at Washington, has been renamed Wyoming avenue
 Boston savings banks contain half million dollars in unclaimed deposits.
 A troupe of Persian female dancers, the best ever seen in Teheran, are now en route for Paris.
 The congressional library at Washington will cover Il, 900 square feet, more than two and a half acres
 The project for building a bridge over the Mississippi at Memphis seems in way to take definite shape
 The Stezerer rife factory, in Austrin, two weeks ago took on 1000 extra hands. Peace in Europe is booming.
 A solid cut glass bedstead, richly worked, was lately made at Birmingham, England, for Calcutta millionaire.
 An interesting sale of autographs recently took place in Paris. Liszt's signature brought $2O, while ola's sold for $1.sO. The bicycle has been adopted in Persia Six of the machines arc in use in Teheran- two by nobles, the others by telegraph men. Tubac. small town in Pima county, A,.i., claims to be the oldest settlement in the United States. It's town records extend back to 1539.
 The largest plate of beveled glass ever set | in the United States has been placed in a De troit saloon front It is thirteen feet across 1 and three -eighths of foot in thickness. Representative Whitthorne, of Tennessee, l has an idea that the government might begin 1 establishing postal telegraph system by contract, just as it has established post roads. The Audubon Society for the Protection of | Birds, founded in February, 1886, has att 1 tained membership roll of A, 900, represent ] ing all parts of the United States and Canada.
 The total daily attendance at the schools of London is reported at 91 ,561. Of these pupils B, ,497 go to the Anglican schools, A O55 to the board, or public schools, and % ,270 to the Catholic schools. One thousand two hundred and forty di- vorces were granted in France in 1885, the l first year of the existence of the divorce law l in France. The last twelve months produced 488 Parisians divorced, the most being in the rich quarters.
 Tokio alone has eleven daily and eleven l weekly papers, only two of which are printed l in the English language. Nagasah has a Japanese daily and al. English weekly. Eigh- teen other Japanese towns support at least one daily paper each. They are all large, handsome sheets.
 A few weeks ago a woman at Elk Rapids,
 Mich. sold to ragman rebel flag that had been in her garret for twenty years. She didn't know what it was. The peddler took it to a neighboring town and exhibited it. It
 was eighty feet long and bore the word
 Nashville" and it is thought to have be- longed to the blockade runner of that name.
 The peddler offered to sell it for $5, but there
 were no buyers.
 Baron Hirsch's offer of $1o,OOo,0 o,0oo to be
 expended by the czar of Russia in promoting the welfare of the Russian Jews has been ac' cepted. The money is to be paid into the
 Bank of England, and Baron Rothschild and
 Baron De Worms, who were appointed trus
 tees, will receive the interest of tho sum de
 posted. It is estimated that it will be possi ble to open 1000 schools for 5000 children with the money, other charities not being , neglected in the meantime.